Composer Details
Klaus Badelt
Birthdate
 

Country of origin
Germany 

Web site
www.klausbadelt.com 

Biography
Composer Klaus Badelt started his musical career writing and producing music for dozens of highly successful movies and commercials in his native Germany. In 1998, Oscar-winning composer Hans Zimmer was impressed enough with Klaus’ scores to invite him to move his musical home to Media Ventures, Zimmer’s highly regarded film scoring facility in Santa Monica. Since then, Klaus has been working on a number of his own innovative film and television projects, that include Time Machine and K-19 The Widowmaker, as well as collaborating with Zimmer and other Media Ventures composers such as Harry Gregson-Williams (Enemy of the State) and John Powell (Face/Off).

With Zimmer, Klaus has contributed music to the Oscar-nominated scores for Thin Red Line and The Prince of Egypt, and written music for such directors and producers as Gore Verbinski, Kathryn Bigelow, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Terrence Mallick, John Woo, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Tom Cruise and Sean Penn.

Klaus co-produced the score to Roman epic Gladiator directed by Ridley Scott, while writing portions of the score with Golden Globe nominated singer/composer Lisa Gerrard (The Insider). With Gladiator, Mission: Impossible 2 and X-Men, Klaus contributed music to the three most successful movies in 2000. He also collaborated with Hans Zimmer on the Sean Penn-helmed drama The Pledge, as well as the 2001 blockbusters Hannibal and Pearl Harbor. Most recently he completed work on the Guy Pearce sci-fi film The Time Machine.

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